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| Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer. | |
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| 40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals. | | | |
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| 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled. | | | |
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| On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily. | |
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| Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog. | |
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| Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a medicine. | |
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| Leonardo DA Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time. | |
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| Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood. | |
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| There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos. | |
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| Leonardo DA Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips. | |
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| Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm. | |
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| The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"! | |
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| By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand. | |
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| Mosquito repellents don't repel... They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there. | |
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| Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. | |
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| The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum. | |
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| Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined. | |
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| Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot. | |
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| Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor. | |
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| The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order. | |
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| To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly. | |
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| The average person falls asleep in seven minutes. | |
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| The "pound" (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp. | |
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| The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat. | |
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| Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated. | |
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| The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing. | |
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| Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in "MT". | |
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| It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. | |
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| In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off". | |
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| A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.. | |
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| We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime. | |
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| Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines | |
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| Mexico City sinks about 10 inches a year. | |
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| Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV. | |
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| Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans. | |
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| When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying "yes" in Sri Lanka | |
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| There are more chickens than people in the world. | |
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| The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest. | |
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| There are more telephones than people in Washington , D.C. . | |
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| The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day. | |
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| The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three Times each morning. | |
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| The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the Combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations. | |
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| The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette Company died of lung cancer. | |
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| Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair. | |
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| The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910. | |
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| Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears Never stop growing. | |
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| You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV. | |
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| A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a Few weeks. | |
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| Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying. | |
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| The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. | |
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| When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less. | |
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| Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned His wife or mother because they were both deaf. | |
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| A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a Carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After Weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe Leaving her mentally retarded | |
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| "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language | |
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| Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking Countries because Colgate translates into the command "go hang Yourself." | |
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| Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different. | |
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| "Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive Double letters. |
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